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Review of the Challenge of Affluence

This is a review of Avner Offer's The Challenge of Affluence: Self Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain Since 1950.  It appeared in the Business History Review vol. 81 no. 2.  The book is well worth a read.

August 30, 2007 | Permalink